Narapatijayacarya 2.14
Narapatijayacaryā 2.14
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2.14
yadi nāmni bhavedvarṇaḥ saṃyuktākṣaralakṣaṇaḥ |
grāhmastadādimo varṇa ityuktaṃ brahmayāmale ||
If there should be in a name a phoneme having the characteristic of a conjunct consonant,
then its initial phoneme must be taken; so it is said in the Brahmayāmala.
2.14.p1
kādīti---akārādi a i e e o svarāṇāmadhaḥ kakārādārabhya hakārāntān varṇān ṅa ña ṇa rṇān ujbhitān tyaktvā tiryak paṃktikrameṇa pañcatriṃśatprakoṣṭhake likhetṛ | naranāmādiriti | naranāmri yaḥ ādimo varṇaḥ sa yatsvarāddhaḥsthitaḥ sa svaraḥ tasya varṇasya varṇasvara hatyucayate | yathā devadttasya nāmri prathamavarṇo dakāraḥ sa cakre okārasvarāṇdhaḥ sthito'si ato devadattasya okāro varṇasvara iti | evaṃ sadānandasya varṇasvara ekāra eva | evaṃ sarvatra vicāraḥ karttavyaḥ | na proktā | yadi kathaṃcit nāmādau ṅañaṇā varṇāstadā tatra yathākrameṇa gajaḍā varṇāḥ grāhmāḥ | tatra gajaḍānāṃ yo varṇasvaraḥ so'nukrameṇa ṅañaṇānāṃ bodhyā iti | yadi nāmnīti | yadi kasyacinnarasya deśasya vā nāmādimo varṇa saṃyuktākṣaro bhavati | tadā tatra varṇasvaraḥ kaḥ grāhma iti jijñāsāyāmāha---grāhṛmastadādimo varṇaḥ | yathā kasyacinnāma śrīpatiriti tatrādimo varṇaḥ śakarastasyoparitano tatrāha kalyāṇavarmā | bahūni yasya nāmāni narasya syuḥ kadācana tataḥ paścādabhavaṃ nāma grāhmaṃ svaraviśāradaiḥ | tathā ca lampaṭācāryaḥ---yadā svarādikaṃ nāma tadā grāhmaṃ puro'kṣaram | deśe grāme pure harmye nare nāmādivarṇataḥ || varṇasvarodabhavaṃ teṣāṃ phalaṃ samyak pratiṣṭhitam | svarasya mātrā saṃjñoktā na varṇatvaṃ tu yāmale || mukunvijaye'pi---ādyo yuktākṣare nāmri purovarṇaḥ svarādika iti | tathā ca bavau śasau ṣakhau ṅañau
"Beginning with ka", etc.: Beneath the vowels beginning with a—a, i, [u], e, o—one should write across in thirty-five cells the phonemes starting from the letter ka and ending with the letter ha, omitting the phonemes ṅa, ña, and ṇa. "The beginning of a man's name", etc.: The first phoneme in a man's name, whatever vowel it stands beneath, that vowel is called the phoneme-sound of that phoneme. As in the case of Devadatta's name, the first phoneme is the letter da; in the diagrammatic wheel it stands beneath the vowel o, so o is Devadatta's phoneme-sound. In the same way, the phoneme-sound of Sadānanda is just the vowel e. Thus consideration should be made everywhere. "They are not declared": If somehow the phonemes ṅa, ña, and ṇa occur at the beginning of a name, then in that case the phonemes ga, ja, and ḍa are to be taken in their respective order. The phoneme-sound of ga, ja, and ḍa is to be understood as that of ṅa, ña, and ṇa respectively. "If in a name", etc.: If the initial phoneme of the name of a person or a country is a conjunct consonant, then, upon inquiring which phoneme-sound is to be taken there, he says: "Then the initial phoneme is to be taken." As when someone's name is Śrīpati, there the initial phoneme is the letter śa; the one above it [is taken]. On this point Kalyāṇavarman says: "Whenever a man should have many names, then the name that comes later is to be taken by those skilled in sounds." And likewise the master Lampaṭa: "When a name begins with a vowel, then the initial syllable is to be taken. In a country, village, town, palace, or person, according to the initial phoneme of the name, // the result arising from the phoneme-sound is firmly established for them. The duration of the vowel is declared as its measure, but not its phonemic nature in the yāmala." In the Mukundavijaya also: "In a name with a conjunct consonant, the first is the leading phoneme; a vowel is initial," and so forth. And likewise, ba and va, śa and sa, ṣa and kha, ṅa and ña [are identical]...
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- Jayalakṣmī — Harivaṃśa Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
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- Saṅgrahaśiromaṇi — Sarayūprasāda, Sanskrit
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